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Taken at the light house at Cabrillo Monument in San Diego. Yes, I know it's a cliche but I couldn't help myself.
Other pictures I have taken here over the years can be seen in my "Old Point Loma Lighthouse set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628026531823/
We collected some pipi shells for feed. Then, while walking home, I found this. Someone has been creative and making best out of them.
Picture taken 9/11/23
Shell | 381 State St, Conneaut, OH
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It's a hard life on the beach if you're a shell!
And yes I did get my feet wet - not to mention the tripod.
We use mainly 4 type of shell to make the parts.
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2. Abalone Shell (black shell)
3. Purple Shell
4. Pink Shell
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Photos taken on January 10, 2009 of a former Shell Station at the corner of Venice and Vermont in Los Angeles. It has gone through a series of owners since it was a Shell Station many years ago.
The Shell Project - Originally started as an exercise to test some of the features of my new Casio point and shoot camera but turned into an extended study of a single abalone shell. The series shows the results of photographing that shell at different focusing modes and lighting conditions.
This is a tighter in view of my 20 gallon long tank that is set up for the African rift lake species of fish known as multies. They normally use empty snail shells on the bottom of the lake s their homes where they sleep, hide, breed, etc. This picture shows the sand on the bottom covered with shells, rocks and a few plants.
Yeah, I took a million pictures of shells. I won't bore you.
From Day 2 of our Memorial Day 2008 trip to Assategue Island National Seashore.
Mount Olympus (Cyprus) is virtually cover in shells ...
Processing with the Gimp Lomo script by Elsamuko
Assorted shells out of my shell collection.. These were gifted to me by my husbands grandfather. I also included a stone in the shape of a heart.. Not man made.
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
Order: Perciformes (Perch-likes)
Family:Labridae (Wrasses)
Genus/species: Semicossyphus pulcher
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: Length to 91 cm (36 in), weight to 16kg (35 lbs). Body is fusiform, deeply, compressed. Males are larger, with black tail and head sections with wide, reddish orange midriffs and white chins,. Adult females reddish-brown. Caudal fin almost square. Juveniles are brick red on sides with white stripe and a black spot on its tail.
Both sexes have white chins protruding canine teeth
DISTRIBUTION/HABITAT: Monterey Bay, California to Baja California, Mexico on rocky bottoms or in kelp forests and shallow reefs to 55 m, typically 3 (10 ft)–30 m (!00 ft).
DIET IN THE WILD: Carnivore. Hard-shelled prey (sea urchins, barnacles, clams, gastropods, mussels, lobsters and crabs) crushed with tooth-plates in rear of mouth. Also take octopuses and various worms; can pry prey from substrate with canine teeth.
REPRODUCTION: Protogynous hermaphrodite. Individuals initially female, change to males at about 30 cm and 13 years of age and and living to about about 21 years in some studies. Sex change metamorphosis takes less than one year.
PREDATORS/MORTALITY: Diurnal. At night, as many wrasses do, they move to crevices wrapping themselves in a mucus cocoon to protect themselves from predation from other fishes.
CONSERVATION: Restaurants often serve immature pre-adult specimens often females before they’ve reproduced. The California Department of Fish and Game now restricts the catch size to prevent over fishings.
REMARKS: Large teeth can cause serious bite wounds.
Diurnal. At night, as many wrasses do, they move to crevices wrapping themselves in a mucus cocoon to protect themselves from predation from other fishes.
Southern California Coast CC19, Giants CC20
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